'Russian spy' has British links

'Russian spy' has British links. Anna Chapman, the woman at the centre of a transatlantic probe into spy allegations previously worked in Britain and was married to a British citizen.

A defendant known as 'Anna Chapman' allegedly communicated with a Russian official in Manhattan in January Photo: Facebook


Ms Chapman appears to have lived in Britain for around four years from 2003 Photo: Facebook

Ms Chapman was one of 10 people arrested in the US by the FBI for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence service.

Ms Chapman appears to have lived in Britain for around four years from 2003 and private plane hire firm NetJets Europe said she had been employed at its London office for a short period. A report by the Daily Express said Chapman's real surname is Kuschenko, and she was born in Ukraine and raised in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad.

A company spokesman said: "We can confirm that Ms Chapman was employed by NetJets Europe from May to July 2004, as an executive assistant in the sales department."

According to her profile on the networking website LinkedIn, Ms Chapman worked in London from September 2003 and also worked in the investment banking division at Barclays Bank and at Navigator hedge fund.

Barclays said the bank had no record of an Anna Chapman working in its investment division at the time she claims to have been there in 2004 and 2005.

Ms Chapman's profile says she has run her own company, internet estate agency Property Finder Ltd, since October 2006 and is now based in New York.

She claims to speak Russian, English, German and French and has a masters degree in economics from a Russian university.

It also says she studied financial planning at the UK-based BPP International Educational Centre.

A centre spokesman said today she was unable to confirm whether Ms Chapman had studied there.

According to reports, Ms Chapman married a British citizen but had since divorced.

Ms Chapman's Facebook page includes several glamorous photographs and a black and white photo showing her wearing what appears to be the uniform of the Young Pioneer organisation, the former Soviet Union's equivalent of the Scouts. ( telegraph.co.uk )

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